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PRESS RELEASE
New SGI® UV™ for SAP HANA® Enables Real-time Business for Large Enterprises
Customers Including Sigma-Aldrich Corporation rapidly adopting SGI’s newly certified appliance for its
performance and simplicity to achieve extreme scale with SAP HANA platform
and lower total costs of ownership
MILPITAS, CA — October 16, 2014 — SGI (NASDAQ: SGI), a global leader in high performance solutions
for compute, data analytics, and data management and an SAP® global technology partner, today
introduced SGI® UVTM for SAP HANA®. It is a purpose-built, in-memory computing appliance for growing
environments running the SAP HANA platform. SAP-certified and available today as a 4- or 8-socket
single-node system with up to 6 terabytes (TB) of in-memory computing, SGI’s new appliance is
designed to enable the largest enterprises to achieve real-time operations and business breakthroughs
with SAP HANA at extreme scale, helping to lower cost of ownership, while providing business
continuity.
SGI UV for SAP HANA utilizes a unique scale-up, single-node architecture designed to deliver
performance at unprecedented platform capacities. The simplicity of a single-node will allow enterprises
to run applications free from the overhead of clustered appliances and reduce installation time—there
are no cluster nodes, cluster network, or SAN to configure and administer. And there will not be a need
for database partitioning or re-balancing I/O when increasing the size of the SGI appliance. Operational
costs are reduced, high availability is streamlined, and capacity can be increased seamlessly with nearlinear performance.
“Large enterprises demand performance, simplicity and reduced total cost of ownership to achieve
business transformation with the SAP HANA platform,” said Jorge Titinger, president and CEO, SGI. “We
are proud to bring our UV technology and in-memory computing expertise to enterprise environments
providing an appliance designed to run simple and deliver the power of SAP HANA at extreme capacity.
This certification marks SGI’s commitment to deliver the operational simplicity of single-node
architectures for greater scale to enable the competitive advantage that SAP HANA provides enterprise
customers.”
SGI UV for SAP HANA features the SGI UV 300H, a new offering in the SGI® UV™ server line built for SAP
HANA that couples seventh generation SGI technology and over 100 patents for in-memory computing
with Intel® Xeon® E7 8890 v2 15-core processors. The appliance is certified by SAP at 4- or 8- sockets
with up to 6TB of shared memory using 32GB DIMMS (capacity doubles using 64GB DIMMS) using
ultrafast SGI NUMAlink® 7 interconnects. SGI UV 300H architecture is designed to scale to 32 sockets
and 24TB of shared memory as a single-node system. NetApp® E2700 RAID arrays provide backup of
data and log files in the event of power loss. The appliance arrives pre-configured with SAP HANA
running on SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server. It is deployed by SGI professional services and SAP offers
licensing for SAP HANA and first-line support for the solution.
Sigma-Aldrich Chooses SGI UV for SAP HANA
Life science and technology company Sigma-Aldrich Corporation selected SGI UV for SAP HANA to power
its SAP HANA-based environment, enabling employees to better perform real-time analysis and
proactively manage its 270,000 chemicals, biochemicals and other essential products for over 1.4 million
scientists and technologists. Sigma-Aldrich will deploy 24 appliances of SGI UV for SAP HANA to support
high availability and disaster recovery configurations spanning multiple data centers. In total, these
solutions deliver 50-plus TB of in-memory compute power to run all SAP HANA-based enterprise
applications. Seamless high availability and disaster recovery capabilities will help provide missioncritical data and workloads with an additional appliance.
“With operations in 37 countries and one of the leading life science e-commerce platforms in the
industry, Sigma-Aldrich supports millions of researchers around the world in its quest to enhance the
quality of life,” said Silji Abraham, vice president and chief information officer at Sigma-Aldrich. “Our
goal is simply to transform into a true, real-time enterprise by leveraging the immense computing power
of SAP HANA for all transaction and analytic systems. At the heart of this transformation is the desire to
provide best-in-class products and solutions to our customers around the world to help them accelerate
their research and find solutions.”
Abraham continued, “SGI has offered us a unique scale-up technology for SAP HANA beyond the normal
limits. This allows us to realize our vision of transforming our entire enterprise to a ‘real-time
enterprise,’ without worrying about our ability to support the exponential growth of big data.”
“We welcome the availability of the new SGI UV for SAP HANA to the market,” said Steve Lucas,
president, Platform Solutions, SAP. “We look forward to working with SGI to further enable large
enterprise customers to gain the real-time benefits of SAP HANA across the breadth and depth of their
enterprises.”
“SGI brings 20 years of expertise and industry leadership in large-scale, in-memory computing,” said Earl
Joseph, program vice president at IDC. “Their scale-up, single-node architecture is a significant addition
to the appliances SAP-certified for SAP HANA. It provides a solid growth path for large, performanceintensive deployments and can greatly enhance operational efficiency.”
SGI Joins SAP Co-Innovation Lab
SGI also announced it has become a member of the SAP Co-Innovation Lab, part of SAP’s global network
of labs. As a member of the lab, SGI will collaborate with SAP to develop and test innovative, new big
data technologies and solutions with its 16-socket SGI UV. SGI and SAP, together with other partners
such as SAP National Security Services (SAP NS2TM) and Intel, will be working to explore a number of
relevant topics such as advanced analytics, including genome analysis and others.
Availability and Support
SGI UV for SAP HANA with 4- or 8- sockets is now available for purchase from SGI and is ready for
shipment. It is deployed by SGI professional services and SAP offers licensing for SAP HANA and first-line
support for the solution.
Learn more about SGI UV for SAP HANA at www.sgi.com/saphana.
About SGI
SGI is a global leader in high performance solutions for compute, data analytics and data management
that enable customers to accelerate time to discovery, innovation, and profitability. Visit sgi.com
(sgi.com/) for more information.
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(facebook.com/sgiglobal) and LinkedIn (linkedin.com/company/sgi).
Grayling Public Relations | Jessie Adams-Shore | (415) 593-1400 | [email protected]
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